GOP eyes redistricting in Ohio and Texas as it looks to bolster slim majority

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo! News/The Hill

Sat, July 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT


Republicans are eyeing potential redistricting opportunities in Ohio and Texas as they seek extra cushion to protect their thin majority in the House next year. In Ohio, redistricting laws mandate a redraw ahead of 2026 because the last map passed without bipartisan support. And in Texas, redistricting could be added to an upcoming special session agenda as the White House reportedly pushes the Lone Star State to consider redrawing to protect the party’s numbers.

Defending a narrow 220-212 majority, Republicans are bracing for a competitive election cycle as they look to defy traditional headwinds typically associated with the president’s party in midterm years.

“I think the Speaker and party leadership look at even a handful of districts as really important, particularly if the natural trend — given the president’s popularity at this point and given historic midterm conditions — means that the Republican Party starts out assuming they’re going to lose a couple districts right off the bat,” said Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University who founded the database “All About Redistricting.”

“Ohio is going to have to redraw, one way or the other. Texas is mulling whether to redraw. And there are a lot of competing pressures.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-eyes-redistricting-ohio-texas-210000018.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Cheating to win is the GOP way.

[Gimpyknee]

3. To be fair Dems do this too. My traditional red district in Frederick County, MD was gerrymandered a number of years ago

It’s voted blue ever since.

[Martin68]

11. True, but MD is an outlier among Democratic-majority states. Many Democratic states have far more objective protocols in

place for districting.

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

13. As a Marylander

I know for a fact that for decades the Republic Party was over represented here. When Dems held a 3 to 2 margin in voter registrations the Republics were handed 4 of the 8 House seats. When the Republics gerrymandered Texas, Ohio, Florida, PA, Wisconsin and others before and especially after the 2010 midterms the Democrats here decided to fight fire with fire. I dislike gerrymandering but trying to play fair with devious Republics is foolish.

I am in nutcase Doc Andy Harris's district that was bought for him by the Club for Growth. Andy is a former doc who has voted against expanding healthcare time after time. I believe he took the Hypocritical rather than the Hippocratic oath. Now he is the head honcho of the Far Right Freedom Caucus. Unfortunately, his mostly rural district is his for life because the morons who vote for him every two years continue to vote against their self interest.

The Republic Party in MD pouts and complains about Democratic one party rule, but there is one party rule in many red states and that suits them just fine. Most of the Republics in the legislature are MAGAs who worship draft dodger president Bone Spurs Their goal for Maryland is to turn it red. I pray that never happens.

[lonely bird]

2. Sigh

Us Ohioans about to get fucked again.

[Capt. America]

6. Wash, rinse, repeat

[Deminpenn]

4. Ohio is already heavily gerrymandered, so is Texas for that matter

Not sure if additional tweaks to the congressional maps will result in more R seats or just produce more districts that aren't exactly safe for Rs.

[cstanleytech]

5. Republicans motto is if you can't win fair then cheat.

[Marthe48]

7. The Ohio Supreme Court ordered Ohio

to redraw the maps at least twice since 2016. The r majority ignored the ruling. gym jordan's district is one of the worst offenders of gerrymandering in the U.S. It is shaped like a duck:

https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2019/05/readers-say-marcy-kaptur-jim-jordan-have-ohios-worst-gerrymandered-congressional-districts.html

People who are not rwnj are disenfranchised and losing more ground every election. The Ohio supreme court is now ruled by rwnj judges who are in step with the rw agenda. I'm a life-long resident of this state and it wasn't like this until rw radio and other crap poisoned the residents.

[lonely bird]

8. Agreed

RW radio, Saint Ronnie the Dim-Witted, George W. (My goofy dog is smarter than you)Bush and his simplistic bullshit and then the big one…a Black guy elected president.

I am in deep red Portage County. There are still Trump/Vance/Moreno signs up.

[Marthe48]

9. Washington County where I live

has been red as long as I can remember. I can remember when it was one of the only counties in s.e. Ohio that voted for r's. I lived in Monroe County when I noticed. Now, the only county in s.e. Oh. that votes blue is Athens County.

If any of the rw candidates had a signle shred of decency or integrity, I wouldn't hate this all so much. But they've offered dregs for years and each election cycle, their candidates suck even more.

I drove through Portage County last summer. Pretty area.

[Martin68]

10. Any sign they are worried about their bullet-proof majority is a good sign.

[wolfie001]

12. The Fascist-6 are waiting in the wings

Anything the fat orange imbecile and the rePUKE party want, they get.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. Fucking

Cheating maggots.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Republicans are trying to further gerrymander a state that already has districts that look like this:

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Texas Redistricting-As a voting rights volunteer, I was amused to learn a new term "dummymander"

I have been volunteering on voting rights/voter protection since 2004 when I went to Florida as part of the Kerry Edwards voter protection team. I have testified before committees of both the Texas House and Senate on gerrymandered districts. Part of my testimony was used in a prior lawsuit that unfortunately failed. Texas is heavily gerrymandered. My congressional district went from a R+1 to a R+21 as part of the last gerrymander. trump wants Ohio and Texas to re-gerrymander their districts to help in the midterms. I was amused to see that these efforts run a risk of failing

Republicans run a risky strategy for holding the House that rests on redrawn maps
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

— David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T18:40:41.292Z

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/texas-redistricting-00448145

But in Texas, Republicans are in danger of creating a so-called dummymander, whereby an attempt to draw more seats for one party accidentally benefits the other. Texas’ congressional map already heavily favors the GOP, so any changes to further benefit the party would have to walk a careful line. Adding Republican voters to blue districts to reduce Democrats’ margins means taking those same voters out of the red districts where they reside. The result is more competitive districts across the board — ones Democrats hope to take advantage of as they harness anti-Trump energy in the midterms.

“They are playing a little bit of roulette with these maps,” said Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas). “In a wave election like what we have a potential opportunity for in ‘26 I think it makes these Republicans very vulnerable.”

Texas has 38 House seats, with 25 held by Republicans. Members of the state’s Democratic delegation huddled with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the redistricting talk ramped up, with follow-up meetings planned.

Jeffries warned in a statement Wednesday that an aggressive map could “result in making several incumbent House Republicans vulnerable to fierce general election challenges.”

“Republicans are cutting off their nose to spite their face,” he added.....

Democrats are almost certain to sue over whatever new maps are created in both Ohio and Texas, said John Bisognano, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

“I imagine we will have a lot to say about the map they create and the legalities of it,” he said Thursday.

On top of everything else, there is a trial going on with respect to the Texas maps that these efforts may affect.

This will be fun to watch

[0rganism]

17. May they gerrymander 90% of their seats down to 5-point margins prior to a 10-point electoral loss

That... that would be juicy as fuck.